Elbe Bridge Tangermünde

Location Tangermünde
Saxony-Anhalt
Germany

Client Fed. Rep. of Germany

Contractor Consortium Elbebrücke

Tangermünde:
Walter Bau AG/Max Bögl

Installation 1998, 1999

• Type of structure Steel arch bridge

• Overall length 1435 m (main span 185 m - 25 spans from 44 to 60 m)

• Bearings
Type and quantity For the main span:
1 fixed spherical bearing
1 guided sliding spherical bearing
2 free sliding spherical bearings

For the approach spans:

40 free sliding pot bearings
2 fixed pot bearings
12 guided sliding pot bearings

Characteristics Maximum vertical load 17500 kN for spherical bearings

Maximum vertical loads from 5500 to 12500 kN for pot bearings

Standard DIN 4141

R028P/E September 2002

Technical approvals “Zulassung” n. Z-16.2-410, Z-16.31-407, Z-16.4-415 issued by DIBt

(Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik)
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• Description After Germany’s unification in 1989, the National Road B188,
which runs parallel to the Highway A2 Hannover-Berlin, started to gain
increasing importance as a main East-West connection.

Destroyed in World War II, the bridge over the Elbe River at Tanger-
münde had been replaced by a temporary bridge with a limited load
carrying capacity and heavy traffic had to undertake a 60 km long
deviation to the next bridge.

The planned track of a new bypass north of Tangermünde made it

necessary to build a new bridge across the Elbe River.

With its overall length of 1435 m, the bridge over the Elbe River at
Tangermünde is the longest bridge of Saxony-Anhalt.

Its structure comprises of the Western approach ramp of 160 m, the

main bridge of 185 m and the Eastern approach ramp of 1090 m
length.

According to the design, the rise of the steel arch was to be compen-
sated only after the casting of the concrete slab.
This reason made is necessary to also provide a rotational pre-set of
the spherical bearings.

The upper counterplate of the arch bridge bearings is in contact with

the concrete cast into a recess at the foot of the steel arch.

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